Saving the Multiverse | Avengers, DCEU & Arrowverse Crossover

𝙸. Chapter 4: "Language"

Churchill, Salvage Yard

South Africa

Wanda, Pietro, and Sarah stand in the presence of the one and only Ulysses Klaue, aboard the Churchill. They're in, What appears to be, his office. Windows enclose around the office, while Electronics and other equipment occupy the inside in a very unorganized manner.

     "If you're going to fiddle with my brain and make me see a giant cuttlefish. Then I know you don't do business and I know you're not in charge, and I only deal with the man in charge." Ultron crashed through, kicking Ulysses out of the office. "Ah, ow f*ck!"

     "Language," Sarah reprimands, smiling down at Klaue,

     "There is no man in charge," Ultron leans down, "Let's talk business. I know about your supply of Vibranium." Sarah remembers the last time Ultron wanted to speak business, 'This is not going to end well,' she thought.

     "Who are you? What's Vibranium?" Klaue snorts out.

     "Don't act dumb with me," Ultron growls. "I'll take all of it, for a reasonable price." Ulysses stared at him, then his eyes shifted over to Sarah and the twins.

     "Alright, alright." Ulysses gives in and leads all of them down some stairs.

Ulysses has his assistant pull a door and press a button, Ulysses grabbed one of the cylindrical containers

     "Upon this rock, I will build my church." Ultron states, Ulysses hands the container over to him, "Vibranium," Ultron says, tossing it to Pietro.

     "You know, it came with a great personal cost. It's worth billions." Ulysses claims.

Ultron chuckled and tilted his head back again and what some people would call magic, Ultron managed to hack into some systems and wire money to Ulysses' bank accounts. When he finishes, he replies, "Now so are you. It's all under your dummy holding? Finance is so weird. But I always say, keep your friends rich and your enemies rich and wait to find out which is which."

Ulysses and his assistant look up from the bank account startled by what he said because it sounded so familiar,

     "Stark." Ulysses spits,

     "What?"

     "Tony Stark used to say that, to me. You're one of his."

     "What? I'm not!" Ultron snarls and grabs Ulysses' hand. This startles Klaue's assistant, who now was ready to pull his gun on them. Wanda reacted quickly and easily subdued him with her powers.

Everyone's attention returns to Ultron who still clutched Klaue's hand tight. He yells, "I'm not! You think I'm one of Stark's puppet and hallowed men. I mean look at me! Do I look like Iron Man? Stark is nothing!" fumed in anger he brought down his other metal hand, taking off Klaue's arm in the process.

     "Oh, I am sorry.....ooh, I'm sure that's gonna be okay. I'm sorry. It's just that I don't understand, don't compare me, with Stark." Ultron finishes kicking Ulysses. Klaue tumbles down the stairs behind him.

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Avengers Tower

Manhattan, New York City

Steve walks in with a tablet in his hands, handing it to Thor, "What's this?" he asks.

     "A message," Steve replies. "Ultron killed Strucker."

Thor slams the Tablet against Tony's chest, Tony grabs the gadget before it could fall, examining it while Natasha and Bruce starred down from either side of him.

     "And he did a Banksy at the crime scene, just for us," Stark says,

     "This is a smokescreen. Why send us a message when you've just given a speech?" Natasha asks.

     "Strucker knew something that Ultron wanted us to miss," Steve interjects.

     "Yeah, I bet he..." Confused, Natasha watches as everything begins to erase itself. "Yeah. Everything we just had on Strucker's been erased." Natasha finishes.

     "Not everything," Tony spoke up.

Steve walks in with the last of the boxes with the handwritten files on Strucker's Known partners.

     "Known associates. Baron Strucker had a lot of friends," Steve commented.

     "Well, these people are all horrible," Bruce mutters, seeing all their criminal records.

     "Wait," Tony says to Bruce, "I know that guy," He continues on to say when he sees a picture of Ulysses Klaue, Tony takes the file from bruce, "From back in the day. He operates off the African coast. Black market arms." Everyone gathers around tony while the file was passed to Steve who gave Tony an accusing look. "There are conventions, all right? You meet people. I didn't sell him anything. He was talking about finding something new, a game-changer. It was all very Ahab."

     "This?" Thor asks, looking at a picture of the man, pointing at the mark on his neck.

     "It's a tattoo, I don't think he had it..." Tony mumbled.

     "No, those are tattoos," Thor pointed at the top picture before pointing at the bottom picture where the man's neck was showing. "This is a brand."

Bruce went to the computer nearest to him, to see if he could find anything on the brand, "Uh, yeah." He says the results came in, " It's a word in an African dialect meaning 'thief'. In a much less friendly way."

     "What dialect?" Steve questions.

     "Wakanada?" Bruce replies, then he looks closely at the screen again, "Wa-wa-Wakanda." He stutters.

Tony turned to Steve. "If this guy got out of Wakanda with some of their trade goods-"

Steve cut Tony off and says, "I thought your father said he got the last of it,"

     "I don't follow. What comes out of Wakanda?" Bruce asks.

     "The strongest metal on earth," Tony said.

Steve stared at his shield for a while before turning to face Tony, "Where is this guy now?"

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